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Author Lazutkaite, Elena author

Title Re/thinking chickens the discourse around chicken farming in British newspapers and campaigners' magazines, 1982-2016 by Elena Lazutkaite
Published Wilmington, DE Vernon Press 2020

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Series Series in Communication
Series in Communication
Summary "Re/Thinking Chickens: The Discourse around Chicken Farming in British Newspapers and Campaigners' Magazines, 1982-2016" has major social relevance as it focuses on one of the most forgotten and yet most exploited farmed animals, chickens, who now have a combined mass exceeding that of all other birds on Earth. Dr Elena LazutkaitÄ— demonstrates that the planet's most numerous birds, with a population of 23 billion at any one time, are trivialised in public discourse. This book applies the analytical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis in combination with corpus linguistics tools to present a detailed empirical case study. In total, the study corpus comprises 1754 texts published over the period of 34 years in broadsheets The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, tabloids the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail (including their Sunday editions Sunday Mirror and Mail on Sunday) and magazines produced by animal advocacy groups Compassion In World Farming and Animal Aid. This book will be of particular interest to university students of critical animal studies, human-animal studies, discourse studies, cultural studies, communication studies, sociology, (eco)linguistics, in addition to animal advocacy groups and media practitioners
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Chicken industry -- Great Britain -- Public opinion
Animal welfare -- Great Britain -- Public opinion
Animal welfare -- Public opinion
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781648890123
1648890121